These are “just keeping pace with population growth” numbers. The monthly Private Jobs is weak.

If you go to FRED at the St. Louis Fed you can see that the number of multiple job holders is October was 8,050,000 up from 7,846,000 in
September. If those numbers are accurate the it is the case that the number of people working actually declined. The BLS Establishment survey counts jobs not people working. The entire
increase in the headline is due not to more people working but to more people holding more than one job.